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    "id": 880532,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "in the Supplementary Budget and many other opportunities that will arise. So, we need to raise the amounts of money that goes into the NG-CDF and especially for bursaries. With the current allocation of Kshs25 million, many children do not go to school despite a very fair distribution. A lot of times the NG-CDF chairman or manager has to write a letter to a school that the child is very needy and they should be allowed to stay in school. They commit that they will give funds in the next allocation, such that some students have stayed at home for a month or two weeks and this is a big loss to them. The intention for the NG-CDF and the Government is to ensure that all children go to school in good time. They should be accorded equal opportunity and poverty should not give them a disadvantage. So, it will be important to increase the bursaries. The committee in charge of oversight has been mentioned. It is in the law, but a lot of times, it does not exist because it is not funded. This committee should be going round visiting every project in the constituency, monitoring, checking the status and giving reports. The Member of Parliament should work with this committee because our work is to oversee the other committee. So, without a committee on oversight, we are likely to get bad reports. Probably, the audit queries can be minimised if there was an oversight committee. The committee will ensure that every coin is put into use. Where they have issues, they are sorted out on the ground even before the audit reports are given. I want to support Hon. Millie Odhiambo’s proposed amendments. I believe we will work together because I know she is very good in proposing amendments. We can work together as a team of lawyers in Parliament with other interested parties or Members. We can screen the statute together and come up with amendments on how to strengthen it for better service. There is the issue of Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) and the National Treasury. You know the board has a lot of limitations currently."
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